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     The Atlanta Strip Clubs Business League recognized 20 Men of Influence during a reception and induction ceremony on July 27.

      WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Former Department of Agriculture Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod, still reeling from the blow of an assault on her job, character and civil rights record last week, told the Black Press of America that she hopes the travesty of justice that happened to her will now help America move forward with racial healing.

 With several Emmy awards under his belt, Andrew Young could receive a t least one more with the screening of his latest documentary, which tells the story behind the relationship between “Gone with the Wind” author Margaret Mitchell and Morehouse College President Benjamin Elijah Mays.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault (from left), Sonia Sanchez, Kathleen Cleaver and Johnnetta Cole gather for a photo following their conversation on July 23, which opened the “Freedom’s Sisters” interactive exhibit at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. The exhibit, which runs through October, includes Hunter-Gault, Sanchez and Cleaver among 20 women who were key activists in the nation’s civil rights struggle. (Photo by M. Alexis Scott) See story on EMPHASIS.

      It would be difficult to imagine the course of American history without them: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Rosa Parks and her brave refusal in 1955 to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus, Fannie Lou Hamer and her courageous stand at a 1968 political convention.

Internationally-acclaimed Afro-Brazilian percussion group Olodum performs during the National Black Arts Festival at Centennial Olympic Park. The group was founded in 1979 as a Bahian Carnival association highlighting African heritage and Black pride through music, dance and art.

Philadelphia-based dance company Philadanco celebrates 40 years of excellence with performances at Georgia State’s Rialto Center for the Arts during the National Black Arts Festival. The group performed “By Way of the Funk,” a new work set to the music of Parliament-Funkadelic and choreographed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of the Urban Bush Women Dance Company.  (Photo by Willie E. Tucker Jr./WET Media Inc.)

      Billy McKinney, a 30-year member of the Georgia Legislature — whose fiery persona helped boost his career as well as his daughter Cynthia McKinney’s political prospects

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama recently signed into law the most sweeping legislation on bank and Wall Street reform since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

      It would be difficult to imagine the course of American history without them: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Rosa Parks and her brave refusal in 1955 to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery city bus, Fannie Lou Hamer and her courageous stand at a 1968 political convention.